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There’s and important Wolverine 6.1.0 enhancement release this week that follows up on the big Critter Stack 2026 wave with even more improvements to our “cold start” performance. Specifically today, I’d actually like to talk about how we improved and extended the command line diagnostics tools in the Critter Stack to …
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Agent evaluation is most powerful when you combine fast-moving online signals with stable offline baselines. To understand whether your agent is truly improving over time, you need a fixed benchmark alongside your changing real-world traffic. Managing test cases for evaluation baselines as a dataset in Amazon Bedrock …
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This post covers Opus 4.8's improvements and practical guidance for AI engineers integrating the model into agentic systems and production inference workloads on Amazon Bedrock. Link to article: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/claude-opus-4-8-is-now-available-on-aws/
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May marks an important milestone in the SharePoint Framework journey and for the broader Microsoft 365 extensibility ecosystem. Most importantly, we reached general availability of SharePoint Framework 1.23, which represents a key step forward in our continued investment in a modern, stable, a Link to article: …
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Overview Today, we are pleased to announce Agility SDK 1.721-preview with new D3D features along with DXC 1.10.2605.4 adding VectorAccumulate to LinAlg in the existing Shader Model 6.10 preview. The previous 1.720-preview and SM 6.10 preview Link to article: …
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Development workflows span terminals, IDEs, background agents, and custom assistants. What matters is whether they draw from the same current source. Learn MCP Server gives any MCP-compatible agent direct access to current Microsoft documentation - one endpoint, noth Link to article: …
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Today we released PIX version 2605.28-preview, which can be downloaded here. This release complements the new D3D12 Agility SDK that was released today, version 72 Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/pix/pix-2605-28-preview
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End-to-end tests have a reputation problem. They're slow, they're flaky, and the moment you wire in a real cloud dependency, your CI builds become an exercise in waiting and retrying. Most teams I've talked to handle this one of two ways: they push everything down into integration tests and call it good (and lose …
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Learn what's new in Visual Studio Code 1.122 Read the full article Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/vscode-blog/visual-studio-code-1.122
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This post demonstrates that integration in action by automating one of the most labor-intensive workflows in financial services: anti-money laundering (AML) alert triage. You will build a triage workflow using Amazon Quick Flows and Snowflake Cortex, connected through the Amazon Quick Model Context Protocol (MCP) …
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If you work with Microsoft SQL regularly, the AI conversation right now probably feels a little exhausting. Every week brings a new platform, a new pattern, a new opinion about how you’re “supposed” to build AI apps. Most of it assumes you’ll start over. You don’t have to. We’re running SQL AI App in a Day workshops …
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Compare the template method vs strategy pattern in C# with side-by-side code examples showing when inheritance beats composition and vice versa. Link to article: https://www.devleader.ca/2026/05/28/template-method-vs-strategy-pattern-in-c-key-differences-explained
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After careful consideration, we have made the difficult decision to sunset DataSpell as a standalone product. DataSpell was created to focus on the needs of data science and analytics professionals within the JetBrains ecosystem. It allowed us to build and refine a dedicated experience for working with Jupyter …
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dotMemory Unit has long served as a unit testing framework for detecting memory issues in .NET code. We are grateful to everyone who has used it as part of their development and testing workflows. After careful consideration, we have decided to retire dotMemory Unit. The project will no longer receive active …
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Introduction As software projects mature, internal tooling becomes critical for maintainability. By that point, the codebase has usually been in flight for months: multiple languages, real users, real deadlines, and the usual mix of conventions and shortcuts that accumulate when the priority is shipping. This is also …
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Explore OpenAI’s Frontier Governance Framework and how our AI safety, security, and risk practices align with emerging EU and California regulations. Link to article: https://openai.com/index/openai-frontier-governance-framework
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In this post, we explore how Amazon Bedrock Data Automation can accurately extract information from four common types of financial documents: bank statements, W-2 forms, 1099-B tax forms, and vendor contracts. We highlight the complexity in the documents, detail the custom extraction created in Amazon Bedrock Data …
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Compare C# reflection vs source generators in .NET 10 -- understand performance, AOT compatibility, maintainability trade-offs, and which to use for your use case. Link to article: https://www.devleader.ca/2026/05/27/c-reflection-vs-source-generators-in-net-10-which-should-you-choose
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You just created a Cosmos DB account. The portal handed you two keys and a connection string, it worked, and you moved on. That's what most developers do, and it causes problems later. This post is a guide for developers launching a new Cosmos DB app who want a secure default setup without enterprise-grade complexity. …
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In this post, we share how the AWS Generative AI Innovation Center (GenAIIC) collaborated with Works Human Intelligence (WHI) to build two AI agents using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. We discuss the challenges encountered and the solutions that reduced costs by up to 97% while improving operational efficiency. Link to …
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